Predicting the future can be a fraught process. History is littered with the grand visions of futurists who imagined us living under a dome on the moon come 2015 and yet here we are in 2016 no closer to lunar life but glued to cat videos on the screens in our hands.

One man who has had enough experience travelling the world as Hillary Clinton’s senior adviser to look into his own crystal ball is Alec Ross. His new book The Industries of the Future looks at the sorts of changes that are going to emerge in the next 20 years from the commercialisation of genomics to the impact of robotics and whether the next world war will be a cyber war.

He talks Olly Mann through the next big technological changes on the horizon set to change our lives forever.